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Departmental Seminar Series 2008-2009

This seminar series is made possible through the generosity of two prominent Vanderbilt alumni, Ambassador K. Terry Dornbush (BA '55) and Joe L. Roby (BA '61)

Department Seminar Series Coordinator for Fall 2008: Andrea Moro
Department Seminar Series Coordinator for Spring 2009: Andrew Daughety


All seminars will take place in room 204, Calhoun Hall from 3:10-4:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Willemien Kets, Santa Fe Institute
"Inequality and Network Structure"
 
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Michele Boldrin, Washington University @St. Louis
"Quality Ladders, Competition and Endogenous Growth"
 
Friday, September 12, 2008
Robert Pollak, Washington University @ St. Louis
"Bargaining in Marriage, Sorting in the Marriage Market and the Incentives to Accumulate Human Capital"
 
Monday, September 15, 2008
Andrew Foster, Brown University
"Do voluntary pollution reduction programs help reduce pollution levels?"
 
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Steven Callander, Northwestern University
“Searching for Good Policies: Repeated Elections, Learning, and Policy Dynamics"
 
Monday, October 13, 2008
Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
"Do Peso Problem Explain the Returns to the Carry Trade?"
 
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Audra Bowlus, University of Western Ontario
"Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth"
 
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Linda Carter, Vanderbilt University
"A Hard Day's Night: Evening Schools and Child Labor in the United States 1870-1910"
 
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Shannon Sheitz, Boston College
"The Collective Marriage Matching Model: Identification, Estimation and Testing"
 
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Scott Davis, Vanderbilt University
"The Effects of Globalization on International Business Cycle Co-Movement: Is all Trade and Finance Created Equal?"
 
Monday, November 3, 2008
Dennis Novy, University of Warwick
"International Trade Integration: A Disaggregated Approach"
 

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Hakan Yilmazkuday, Vanderbilt University
"A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates"

 
Monday, November 10, 2008
Patrick Bajari, University of Minnesota
"Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence"
 
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Jisong Wu, Vanderbilt University
"Partial Identification of the Distribution of Treatment Effects in Switching Regime Models and its Confidence Sets"
 
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Bingyu Zhang, Vanderbilt University
"Affiliation and Entry in First-Price Auctions with Heterogeneous Bidders"
 
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Rosa Ferrer, Vanderbilt University
"The Effect of Lawyers’ Career Concerns on Litigation"
 
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Costantinos Syropolous, Drexel University
TBA

SPRING 2009
 
Monday, January 19, 2009
M. Keith Chen, Yale University
 
Monday, January 26, 2009
Mariagiovanna Baccara, New York University
 
Monday, February 2, 2009
Peter Norman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
Monday, February 9, 2009
Alberto Bisin, New York University
 
Monday, February 16, 2009
Isabella Brocas, University of Southern California
 
McGee Public Policy Lecture (time & location TBA)
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Robert Hall, Stanford University
 
Friday, February 20, 2009
Robert Hall, Stanford University
 
Monday, March 9, 2009
Michael Baye, Indiana University
 
Monday, April 6, 2009
Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University
 
Monday, April 13, 2009
Ariel Rubinstein, New York University and Tel Aviv University
 
Monday, April 20, 2009
Leslie Marx, Duke University
 

 

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